Restricted-line Courses
Freshman Year:
- Naval Orientation
(Intro to Naval Science)
- Naval Orientation
(Communications and Tactics)
Junior Year:
- Navigation
(Piloting and Navigation)
- Navigation
(Advanced Navigation and Tactics)
Sophomore Year:
- Naval Weapons
(Ordnance and Fire Control) - Naval Weapons
(Fire Control and Electronics)
Senior Year:
- Naval Machinery
(Naval Engineering)
- Naval Administration, Leadership, Ship Stability
(Internal Combustion Engines, Ship Construction and Stability)
In addition, all Marine options, instead of the last four classes, would take the following:
- History of the Art of War (The Fundamental Concepts of Military Policy, Power, and Principles)
- US Military History (Analysis of American Battles)
- Amphibious Warfare (Amphibious Operations)
- Amphib Warfare, Leadership, Military justice
Cruises would consist of the following, although only Regular students would take them all, and Contract students only the 1st Class cruise:
- 3/c - an 8 week presentation of the Navy as an enlisted man
- 2/c - 3 weeks at Pensacola, Fl, for flight indoctrination
- 3 weeks at Little Creek, Va, for amphibious operations
- 3 weeks at Little Creek, Va, for amphibious operations
- 1/c - a 6 week junior officer cruise on a surface combatant
- for Marine options, a 6 week “Bulldog” OCS program
This outline would be one of the few unchanged parts of the NROTC program and would be only revised in the late 1980s.